The Year Oakland Exploded

East Bay Express | December 19, 2012
For the first time in recent memory, Oakland's being noticed for its culture, not its crime rate. Is that a good thing?

East Bay Express

If one mayor represented all of Alameda and Contra Costa counties, that person's 2.5 million constituents would live in the country's fourth-largest city. And just as these East Bay counties are very different from the rest of the San Francisco...
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